– In the category No British Word For.Estrindore. A kind of Brittish daunce. Â¶Rab.

– In the category Ducks.Estonnez comme canes. Dismayed like so manie Ducks.

– From the category Speak English, Man!Iargonneur: m. A chatter, gibridgemunger, counterfeit rogue that speakes fustian, or a language whiche either himselfe, or his hearers vnderstands not.

– In the category Proofreader Only Remembered The Definition. Vaguely.???. a type of play wherein one person gave something into the keeping of another person who then lost it to yet another person through trickerie on behalf of the third person’s part.

– In the category Heed That Second Definition And Its Juxtaposition:Camisade: f. A cold Pie; also, the thin filme, or skin, which inwraps a child in the bed, or after-birth.Calamine: f. A certaine yellow minerall substance, which fire consumes, but melts not; mixed with copper, it changes it into a fine brasse, that lookes like gold; also, the heauier foyle of brasse, or copper; which comes of the sparkles, and smoake that arise from the furnace, and cleaue to the roofe, and vpper sides, of the house, wherein it is melted; also, a kind of apple.

And of course, we’re also processing “Queen Anna’s New World of Words”. Again, from the category They Have A Word For That?Ador[ee]a, the glory and honour belonging to corne in generall.

Furthermore, we’re working on “Etymological Dictionary of the Scots Language”, which has, in the category Words That Need Introducin’ To The English Language:Constable, s. A large glass, the contents of which he is obliged to drink, who has not drunk as much as the rest of the company.

And finally from the category I Have Seen So Many Of These Things I Forget Which Dictionary This One Is From. The first one doubles in the category Missing The Point By A Continent:Atheists (if they think there be a God) haue good cause to thanke God, acknowledging his mercie toward them in sparing vs.Pet de masson. A fart in syrop; the fart that brings durt after it.

“Many readers in the Netherlands consider him the only Lucky Luke writer who even came close to the quality of Goscinny’s work,” Reinder writes in his obituary of Lo Hartog van Banda, who died yesterday at age 89, and I happen to be one of those many. Van Banda was mainly popular in the Netherlands; some of my other favourites among his work are Ti-ta-tovenaar (children’s tv), Arman and Ilva (comic) and Ambrosius (comic).

Noodlot, by Louis Couperus (etext #17659), is the first book at Project Gutenberg that I have scanned. The title means “fate”, “destiny”. I have helped produce a lot of books for PG, hundreds probably, but this is the first one that I actually bought in a store or on a market, that I held in my hands, and that has now been digitized completely, so it is a little bit special for me.

I haven’t actually read it, though, so I cannot tell you what it is about. PG has Plain Vanilla Text (PVT) and HTML versions, and undoubtedly websites like Manybooks will have … drats! that’s fast … has it in many more formats.